July 28th, 2016 Like Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton’s position on the federal minimum wage has evolved since first declaring her run for the presidency in April 2015. As of this writing,…

During the past year of the Republican primaries and now with the shift to the general election, Donald Trump’s stance on the issue of minimum wage has evolved from believing that the current minimum wage…

Although most minimum wage changes for individual states and smaller municipalities (cities, townships, etc) are designated to change on January 1st, there are a few changes that go into effect later in the year. Here…

Sacramento, California (April 3, 2016) Governor Jerry Brown of California and state labor leaders announced legislation to increase the states minimum wage from its current rate of $10 per hour to $15 per hour by…

(Portland, Maine and Tacoma Washington, November 3, 2015) Both cities, Portland, Maine and Tacoma Washington, had ballot initiatives this election day with very different results. Both initiatives had aimed at raising the minimum wage to…

Tallahassee, Florida October 4, 2015 Last week twenty state Democratic legislators took the Minimum wage challenge in the state of Florida. The twenty lawmakers attempted to live on the Florida minimum wage ($8.05 per hour)…

(St. Louis, Missouri, August 28, 2015) St. Louis has now joined several other municipalities including Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and New York by raising their minimum wage above both the federal and…